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Justing618

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Sep 19, 2025, 6:35 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Sep 19, 2025
And you can? Do you have any clue how to calculate the odds of winning any prize? (I know the answer is no.) You don't even have a grasp of basic logic, like why so many winners are from stores 45 minutes from an airport. You have this illogical belief that RNG games and scratchers are rigged. You and Stat$ are this board's la-la-land residents.

Again! You being so stupid and confident about it proves my point. I've explained to you several times these issue's. And by the mind numbing things you repeat. I now know how you vote. Like I said before. You dirty old hamster. People have already been caught rigging these games. Eddie Tippton! The pick 3 scandal! And apparently your brain can't comprehend or process this. But anyways...... I'm going to enjoy my Friday. Because I have a life. You will spend your weekend being a troll and arguing with people. On the internet. And to anyone playing tonight besides Tucker/Elmer Fudd. Good luck 🤞 And have a great weekend!
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Sep 19, 2025, 7:22 pm

Quote: Originally posted by winoneday on Sep 19, 2025
The second tier prize is not random. When it did reach $7 million, it was because the second tier prize in the previous draw was around $6.6 million and it was not won. Therefore, when the prize reached $7 million, it was expected to be around that amount.

Point taken. Does the state advertise that 2nd place prize will be approximately $171,000? I've been to California a few times but I didn't pay any attention to Powerball jackpot advertising.
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Sep 19, 2025, 7:37 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Justing618 on Sep 19, 2025
Again! You being so stupid and confident about it proves my point. I've explained to you several times these issue's. And by the mind numbing things you repeat. I now know how you vote. Like I said before. You dirty old hamster. People have already been caught rigging these games. Eddie Tippton! The pick 3 scandal! And apparently your brain can't comprehend or process this. But anyways...... I'm going to enjoy my Friday. Because I have a life. You will spend your weekend being a troll and arguing with people. On the internet. And to anyone playing tonight besides Tucker/Elmer Fudd. Good luck 🤞 And have a great weekend!

"I now know how you vote."

What does that mean?

"Like I said before. You dirty old hamster."

You write like a very popular member of TruthSocial, with the short sentences, poor spelling and usage, random capitalization, and childish insults. It's indicative of low intelligence.

"Eddie Tippton! The pick 3 scandal!"

Tipton has one "t". The Pennsylvania pick 3 scandal was a ball game. So does this mean you won't play RNG or ball games? There's nothing left for you to play (since you hate scratchers).
Tucker Black

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Sep 19, 2025, 7:46 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Droptop209 on Sep 19, 2025
Incorrect again. Earlier in this thread I posted someone in my small town won PB 2nd prize for $1.3M and I do not live by a airport. You just yapping out your bung hole.

What's the deal with the jerk reply? Was that really necessary?

I never said ALL big winners are from places near an airport. I said most of them.

By the way, you live 40 minutes from Merced. You can fly on Advanced Air to Hawthorne, just down the street from LAX. I've flown to Merced and Hawthorne (not on the same trip). Nice little airports.
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Sep 19, 2025, 11:36 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Sep 19, 2025
Point taken. Does the state advertise that 2nd place prize will be approximately $171,000? I've been to California a few times but I didn't pay any attention to Powerball jackpot advertising.

As far as I know, they do not advertise the size of the second tier prize. But, by looking at the size of the prize in the previous draw and whether or not it was won, it is easy to extrapolate the size of the prize.

I do not think people usually buy Powerball or Mega Millions tickets based on the size of the second tier prize.
KY Floyd

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Sep 20, 2025, 12:35 am

"Where are they putting the additional unexpected $2M in sales? "

They're putting it in the same places as every other $5 in sales. They skim half off the top and the rest goes into the prize pools. The ads are only for estimated jackpots, and higher sales increase it. They're not going to change the advertised amount unless sales are substantially higher than expected, and if you got those numbers from the site that shall not be named (which you must have, because the Texas worksheet doesn't show the higher sales figure), the only jackpot value you'll normally see is the advertised estimate. The live PB drawing usually gives you the most recently updated estimate. Maybe MM does the same, but I'm not sure.

"California prizes are hard to figure out. "

They're not that hard to figure out, because the results always show what the base prize is. For the 9/15 drawing it was $82,181 . Nobody won, so it increased due to the sales for 9/17. You won't know exactly how much it will increase but you can make a reasonable estimate. Saturday sales are generally bigger than Wednesday sales, and the jackpot is bigger, so Saturday's 5+0 prize will probably be more than the $89,587 increase for Wednesday. Let's call it 95k. If the $99 million jackpot isn't big enough to buy a ticket the 1 in 11 million chance of winning about 95k is very unlikely to change that.

"I think that is because the 3rd place prize of $50,000 had no winners, so the prize pool for that one was given to the 2nd place prize."

Absolutely not. What would they use to pay the 3rd place winners the next time they get them?

"no one in California should buy Powerball lottery tickets as long as they have that idiotic rule. "

You understand probability well enough that you should see the obvious. The CA prizes have the same odds as other states, so the prizes tend to average out to the same nominal prizes as in other states. On 9/6 the 5+0 prize was about $1.564 million, for each of two winners. On 8/30 4 players each won $1.165 million. On 8/27 the 5+0 prize was $3.2 million, so even if the estimated jackpot of $850 million was a bit below your buy in point the much better odds for 5+0 and the possibility of being the only winner would have made it a good time to get in the game.

"I do not think people usually buy Powerball or Mega Millions tickets based on the size of the second tier prize. "

Certainly not very many, but it makes more sense (or it's less nonsensical) to buy a PB ticket when the jackpot is under $200 million but the 5+0 has built up to 3, 4, or 5 million than to buy one when the jackpot is 500+ but 5+0 is less than 500k.
Tucker Black

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Sep 20, 2025, 12:47 am

Thank you for that explanation, KY Floyd. It would be nice if calottery.com explained this. They don't. Here's what they have to say about it in fine print:

In California, POWERBALL prize amounts are pari-mutuel, will vary depending on ticket sales and number of winners and will differ from the fixed prizes shown on the POWERBALL website.

"Prize amounts will vary"... really!

The only thing I could figure was that there was a prize pool for non-jackpot prizes that got distributed to whoever won non-jackpot prizes. It's about as intuitive as trying to figure out airline ticket prices (i.e. we'll just tell you how much).
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Sep 20, 2025, 8:27 am

The Mega Millions jackpot has increased by $28 million to $451 million after 24 consecutive rolls and is the largest Mega Millions jackpot since December 2024. The 24 roll record is more than twice as large at $1,100 million. Even though the Mega Millions jackpot is currently larger than the Powerball jackpot, the current race is being won by Powerball since it has reached a much larger jackpot than Mega Millions since the launch of the new game.
Justing618

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Sep 20, 2025, 2:22 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Sep 19, 2025
"I now know how you vote."

What does that mean?

"Like I said before. You dirty old hamster."

You write like a very popular member of TruthSocial, with the short sentences, poor spelling and usage, random capitalization, and childish insults. It's indicative of low intelligence.

"Eddie Tippton! The pick 3 scandal!"

Tipton has one "t". The Pennsylvania pick 3 scandal was a ball game. So does this mean you won't play RNG or ball games? There's nothing left for you to play (since you hate scratchers).

Again cool story...... And no I don't have truth social. But apparently you do. Looks like another site you get on to bicker and argue with people. Like I said before. I know what your whole old miserable day consists of. 😂
Justing618

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Sep 20, 2025, 2:25 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Sep 19, 2025
What's the deal with the jerk reply? Was that really necessary?

I never said ALL big winners are from places near an airport. I said most of them.

By the way, you live 40 minutes from Merced. You can fly on Advanced Air to Hawthorne, just down the street from LAX. I've flown to Merced and Hawthorne (not on the same trip). Nice little airports.

He's giving you the same respect your giving him. Another great example of how confidently stupid you are..........🤡
Tucker Black

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Sep 20, 2025, 7:11 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Justing618 on Sep 20, 2025
Again cool story...... And no I don't have truth social. But apparently you do. Looks like another site you get on to bicker and argue with people. Like I said before. I know what your whole old miserable day consists of. 😂

I don't have a TruthSocial account but I am an informed citizen and I read the news. Apparently you don't. It's okay, most people attracted to conspiracy theories aren't informed and intelligent people.
Justing618

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Sep 20, 2025, 7:24 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Sep 20, 2025
I don't have a TruthSocial account but I am an informed citizen and I read the news. Apparently you don't. It's okay, most people attracted to conspiracy theories aren't informed and intelligent people.

No I just don't blindly follow like you. I was scrolling through some other threads. And seen where the moderate of this site had to put you in your place.
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Quote: Originally posted by winoneday on Sep 20, 2025
The Mega Millions jackpot has increased by $28 million to $451 million after 24 consecutive rolls and is the largest Mega Millions jackpot since December 2024. The 24 roll record is more than twice as large at $1,100 million. Even though the Mega Millions jackpot is currently larger than the Powerball jackpot, the current race is being won by Powerball since it has reached a much larger jackpot than Mega Millions since the launch of the new game.

I got my one PB ticket for tonight and my one MM ticket for tomorrow.

I am a very boring player, no special numbers, no systems or softwares, no mirrors (I don't know what that is so please don't ask me)

Just a firm believer in luck and that's all for me.

Good luck to me in the upcoming draws and to all out there 🤞

I believe winning the lottery jackpot is a 💯 % factor of luck.

May Fortuna, goddess of chance or lot vindicate me.
Justing618

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Sep 22, 2025, 3:21 pm

Quote: Originally posted by JustMaybe on Sep 22, 2025
I got my one PB ticket for tonight and my one MM ticket for tomorrow.

I am a very boring player, no special numbers, no systems or softwares, no mirrors (I don't know what that is so please don't ask me)

Just a firm believer in luck and that's all for me.

Good luck to me in the upcoming draws and to all out there 🤞

Scored mine for the week. Played the usall numbers I play. 🥸 Good luck tonight! Hope there's good news for me or someone else on this site tomorrow.......
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Sep 22, 2025, 11:12 pm

We have our pool tickets for tomorrow's draw.

One ticket has a 4 times multiplier. I hope that is the lucky ticket.

Good luck to everyone that is playing.

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